Virtually the entire catalogue of DRM-free good old games at GOG.com is on sale for up to 50% off through the new year, and they are adding a free copy of Tyrian 2000 to everyone's order as a virtual stocking stuffer. The Humble Indie Bundle #2 is now available, offering the chance to pay what you want for a bundle of Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans, once again allowing you to give some of your contribution to charity. Amazon has a boatload of console games on sale (thanks Batman via Gamerdeals).
Two or more eligible games on the EA Store are 50% off. GamersGate has a buy four, pay for three promotion. There are a bunch of strategy games on sale on Matrix Games.

I payed $15 myself. Anyone who pays 1 penny is a low life. There are indeed some very good games in there. Braid for one is well recognized. Osmos is a lot of fun. Revenge of the Titans is the coolest tower defense game ever lol.

Dev wrote on Dec 15, 2010, 08:01:Put a dual boot win 7 with only just cause installed on it and keep using XP for 99% of your stuff?

If you're willing to pay for it sure. I have a single core PC (what are the odds that would need upgrading?) and I'll probably need a bigger HDD as well as Win 7. I cannot justify that amount of expense for one game

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Icewind wrote on Dec 15, 2010, 04:00:For 10 bucks though, I'm willing to take that risk. Heck, I bought Mount and Blade for $10 and L4D2 for $5, is anyone even making money off of these deals or should I feel guilty?

Yes. Search through blues or google, Gabe gave a talk where he showed that the volume of sales when they increase the percent discount goes up more than the "lost" revenue. i.e. the volume of sales increases enough so they make MORE when they drop the prices in a sale.

So for example selling 1000 copies at $20 is $20,000. Putting a sale on it to $10 if it sells 3000 copies thats $30,000 which is more because of volume. At $5 it might be 20,000 copies which is $100,000.

Anyway, gabe gave the percentage increases they were seeing as they discounted more and more. I think he used l4d1 or l4d2 as the example.

That model works well on steam because there's very little overhead compared to something like selling games at a retail store.

J wrote on Dec 15, 2010, 05:22:I'd have been happy to buy Just Cause 2 at full price... but I have XP. And so far my only reason to upgrade to any other OS is Just Cause 2. I'm no closer to upgrading now than I was when it came out. Good game, bad move. If there was some kind of hack or patch to allow it to be played on XP I'd buy it. But no

Put a dual boot win 7 with only just cause installed on it and keep using XP for 99% of your stuff?

I'd have been happy to buy Just Cause 2 at full price... but I have XP. And so far my only reason to upgrade to any other OS is Just Cause 2. I'm no closer to upgrading now than I was when it came out. Good game, bad move. If there was some kind of hack or patch to allow it to be played on XP I'd buy it. But no

I ended up scooping Gothic II gold. I'll give that a whirl after I've exhausted Risen.

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Icewind wrote on Dec 15, 2010, 04:00:is anyone even making money off of these deals or should I feel guilty?

My guess is that they do make money. Indirectly also they are promoting PC gaming with these great prices and delivery system. They are expanding the customer (gamer) base. My guess is, and it's just a guess, that over time these sales have a snowball effect. Each riding off the last...

But I was thinking today that buying games at full release price is now just for those 'must have' games and otherwise it's assured that the price will drop a lot within a year. I'll leave it to them to price their product, but maybe some do lose some money on these sales. Hard to know.

I hope there aren't a bunch of douchebags paying 1 cent like there were last year. I chipped in $20, there's some pretty cool looking games in there. Sadly my internet (local cable co.) has been shit the past few days, so I'll have to wait for it to clear up to download them.

Shok wrote on Dec 14, 2010, 20:57: Just Cause 2 - That's a great game for $7.50.

Has it improved since release? I played the demo and wasn't too crazy about it. It seemed like a game I could get into, but something was weird about the controls enough for me to pass on it.

If you can get a 360 controller, use that much better with this game than m+kb imo. Most times you will be in a vehicle of some sort and the controller is much better suited for the controls than a m+kb setup. Also 3rd person games feel better wit the controller for some reason.

I started w/ k+m and moved to a 360 controller. Other than aiming, the controller feels better. Cars still feel a bit off (like driving on ice), but I'll make due...

There are some mods that clean up the car handling, especially for the sports cars. Check out www.justcause2mods.com.

It didn't help. An Eidos earning report recently stated that Kane & Lynch 2 (a game I personally completed in 3 hours and was pretty meh) outsold Just Cause 2 by a ratio of 2:1. That's a crying shame for Avalanche studios, because I consider Just Cause 2 the best sandbox game of the year (along with Minecraft, but they're different games).

PHJF wrote on Dec 14, 2010, 22:28:Just Cause 2 looks fucking gorgeous on a PC. If you've got something equal or better to a GTX260, get the PC version and crank the visuals to orgasm level.

It does indeed. At least technically speaking, it has to be the best console port I've ever seen. The only minor issue I had was slight negative acceleration with the mouse but apart from that, you can tell that they really put in some work into the PC version. Heck the graphics programmer kept adding new console commands into the game months after it had released.

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Wow some great deals on Steam and GoG. I already got my gift to myself for christmas, but it looks like I'm going to get a few games as well lol. Motro 2033, Just Cause 2, a few GoG bundles... sounds like some fun!